
Celebrate Respiratory Care Week: October 23?29, 2016
By Emmanuel Rivera, RRT
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 24 Oct 2016

Please join the American Association for Respiratory Care, the California Society for Respiratory Care and your respiratory therapists in celebrating this annual event that recognizes the respiratory care profession and raises awareness for improving lung health around the world. Respiratory therapists specialize in diagnostics, treatment and prevention of lung disease and medical conditions that make breathing difficult. Specialties include neonatal-pediatrics, geriatrics, emergency care, pulmonary rehabilitation, acute care, home care, education, sleep disorder.
The following public service message is courtesy of Dr. Robert Kacmarek, PhD, RRT, FAARC, Director of Respiratory Care Services at Massachusetts and Harvard University Medical Center.
?Please, don?t smoke.?
It is with hope that this article will help in the prevention of the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Smoking and tobacco use causes nearly 6 million deaths per year (source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention and AARC.org).
Filipino (Tagalog): Mangyaring huwag po tayong manigarilyo
Chinese: 请不要抽烟
Spanish: Por favor, no fumar.
Hindi: कृपया, सिगरेट नहीं पीता।
Arabic: من فضلك، لا يدخنون.
Portugese: Por favor, n?o fume.
Bengali: অনুগ্রহ করে, ধূমপান করবেন না.
Russian: Пожалуйста, не курить.
Japanese: 、喫煙しないでください。
Punjab: ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ, ਸਿਗਰਟ ਨਾ ਕਰੋ.
French: S'il vous pla?t, ne pas fumer.
Author?s notes: My profound thanks to Dr. Robert ?Bob? Kacmarek for sharing his wisdom. And to Mr. Marco Meneses of San Antonio, Texas and the Meneses family of Dagupan City, thanks for the wonderful friendship?Respiratory Care Week is celebrated internationally to recognize respiratory therapists most notably in Canada and the United States. Google Translate? was utilized in this article.
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